EP1599737A1 - Verfahren und schaltungsanordnung zur bestimmung eines elektrischen messwerts für ein widerstandselement, vorzugsweise zur bestimmung eines elektrischen stroms durch das widerstandselement - Google Patents
Verfahren und schaltungsanordnung zur bestimmung eines elektrischen messwerts für ein widerstandselement, vorzugsweise zur bestimmung eines elektrischen stroms durch das widerstandselementInfo
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- EP1599737A1 EP1599737A1 EP03773559A EP03773559A EP1599737A1 EP 1599737 A1 EP1599737 A1 EP 1599737A1 EP 03773559 A EP03773559 A EP 03773559A EP 03773559 A EP03773559 A EP 03773559A EP 1599737 A1 EP1599737 A1 EP 1599737A1
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- G01R27/00—Arrangements for measuring resistance, reactance, impedance, or electric characteristics derived therefrom
- G01R27/02—Measuring real or complex resistance, reactance, impedance, or other two-pole characteristics derived therefrom, e.g. time constant
- G01R27/14—Measuring resistance by measuring current or voltage obtained from a reference source
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- the invention relates to a method and a circuit arrangement for determining an electrical measured value for a resistance element, preferably for determining an electrical current through the resistance element, the resistance element to be measured being connected together with further resistance elements within a resistance matrix consisting of columns and rows of resistance elements.
- pressure-dependent resistance elements are arranged flat on the surface of a motor vehicle seat and interconnected in a matrix-like manner so that a pressure-dependent change in the resistance values of the resistance elements provides information about the weight and weight distribution of a vehicle occupant gives and ultimately allows conclusions to be drawn about his seating position and body measurements.
- Such arrangements of resistors as a resistance matrix in the form of a sensor seat mat are known from the German utility model DE 200 14 200 Ul and from the article “Occupant Classification System for Smart Restraint System ⁇ , Society of Automotive Engineers Inc. from 1999, BNSDOCID XP- 002184965th
- the change in the resistance values of the individual resistance elements of a sensor seat mat used as sensor elements under the influence of a weight is usually determined by a change in your current consumption.
- a voltage is applied to the input of the resistance element to be measured, while its output is connected to the ground connection of the resistance matrix.
- the current flowing in this way through the resistance element to be measured is measured by a measuring unit and is a measure of the resistance of the resistance element to be measured at a given voltage and thus a measure of the weight force on the resistance element.
- all columns and rows of resistance elements that are not due for measurement and are unnecessary in this regard are used connected on the input side as well as on the output side with a voltage that is as large as possible, if possible with the same measurement voltage that is present on the input side of the resistance element to be measured.
- the unneeded rows and columns of the resistance matrix are supplied with voltage by impedance converters which are connected between the measurement voltage and the unneeded rows and columns of the resistance matrix.
- the outputs of the impedance converters usually have their own current driver stages, so-called pull transistors, whose current is delivered to the unnecessary rows and columns of the resistance matrix independently of the measuring voltage source and therefore does not falsify the current measurement at the measuring voltage source.
- Suitable impedance converter are well known from the relevant literature, for example from 'the book “Electronic Circuits", U. Tietze, Ch. Schenk, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg 1991, page 454, figure 16.19.
- An operational amplifier is shown there as an impedance converter, the inverting input of which is connected in a feedback manner to its output.
- FIG. 1 schematically shows such a measuring arrangement during the measurement of a resistance element (R22) of a resistance matrix (2).
- the reference characters of Figure 1 correspond to the reference numerals in the following description of the figures.
- the switch arrangements (SCL2, SCL3, SRI, SR3) that were not required at the time the resistance element (R22) was measured were only partially shown in FIG. 1.
- several individual switches of a circuit arrangement are designated by the same reference numerals and that the electrical connections shown between the individual switches and electronic elements shown are only for the switching state of the switch arrangements shown (SCL2, SCL3, SRI, SR3) consist.
- the resistance elements (R22, R23, R33) shown in FIG. 1 are connected to the ground connection of the circuit arrangement via capacitors (C22, C23, C33 ').
- Such capacitances can be, for example, parasitic capacitances of the circuit arrangement or also deliberately inserted interference suppression capacitors for protection against electromagnetic interference on the circuit arrangement.
- the driver stages which are electrically independent of a measuring voltage (MEAS) from a measuring / supply unit (1) at the output of the two impedance converters (OCL and OR) shown, charge the capacitors (C23, C33 ') connected to them to a voltage level that can be greater than the measurement voltage (MEAS).
- the oscillations generated at the signal output of the impedance converters (OCL and OR) can result in an incorrect measurement of the current flow through the resistance element (R22) to be measured, so that the weight acting on the resistance element (R22) to be measured is incorrect. 'is true. Especially if such incorrect measurements occur on several resistance elements of the resistance matrix (2), this can lead to an incorrectly determined weight or a falsified weight profile of a vehicle occupant.
- the object of the present invention is therefore to provide a method and a device suitable therefor in which the occurrence of interfering influences during the measurement of a resistance element of a resistance matrix, for example signal oscillations, is significantly reduced.
- This object is achieved by a method which has the features of claim 1.
- the object is further achieved by a circuit arrangement which has the features of claim 5.
- connection side of a resistance element is referred to as the input side and the corresponding other connection side of the same resistance element is referred to as the output side.
- a base load resistance element is connected on the input side together with its column within the resistance matrix to the measurement voltage before each measurement of an individual resistance element and on the output side, together with its row within the Resistance matrix with the ground connection of the resistance matrix.
- a common reference voltage line of the resistance matrix is connected to the measuring voltage present on the input side, so that the measuring voltage serves as a reference voltage from which first and second reference voltages for all columns and rows of resistance elements not to be measured are derived. Only then are all the other resistance elements of the resistance matrix, together with their columns, connected on the input side to the first reference voltage and on the output side, together with their rows, to the second reference voltage. Only now is the resistance element to be measured subjected to the measurement voltage on the input side together with its column and connected on the output side together with its row to the ground connection of the resistance matrix.
- the base load resistance element is again separated from the measurement voltage and from the ground connection and, like all other resistance elements at this point in time, together with its column connected on the input side to the first reference voltage and on the output side to the second reference voltage, whereupon the actual measurement of the measured value for the measurement Resistance element can take place, preferably by determining the current that flows from the measurement voltage through the resistance element to be measured to the ground connection.
- the initial connection of the base load resistance element prevents the measurement voltage from being reduced under the effect of the internal resistance of a measurement / supply unit, and thereby voltage differences between the inputs of impedance converters, which are connected to the measuring / supply unit, and capacities at their outputs can arise.
- compound of unmeasured rows and columns of resistive elements with the first or second reference voltage to the outputs of the impedance converter is outside "the prevents the capacitances at the outputs of the impedance converter that charging via the voltage level of the measurement voltage.
- the first and second reference voltages for the columns or rows of resistance elements are advantageously generated at an output of an impedance converter, the input of which is connected to the common reference voltage line. This ensures that the resistance elements in the rows and columns that have not just been measured are kept on the input and output sides at the same potential as possible as the measurement voltage across the resistance element to be measured and at the same time almost no measurement-distorting current in other resistance elements than the resistance element to be measured Column or row flows.
- the first reference voltage for the non-measured columns of resistance elements and the second reference voltage for the non-measured rows of resistance elements are generated by a different impedance converter in each case.
- Driver stages at the signal outputs of the impedance converters can thus be designed with less power, which enables the use of inexpensive, common standard technologies. If a method is used with the features already described for measuring each individual resistance element of a resistance matrix one after the other, then an almost error-free measurement can be made possible for each resistance element of a resistance matrix.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of the measuring arrangement for measuring a resistance element R22 within a resistance matrix 2 according to the prior art
- FIG. 2 shows the schematic illustration from FIG. 1 with a base load resistance element R13 and
- FIGS. 3 to 6 show a schematic illustration of the individual switching operations during a method sequence according to the invention using a circuit arrangement according to the invention for measuring a resistance element R22 with the aid of a base load resistance element R13.
- FIGS. 3 to 6 each show the same circuit arrangement for carrying out a method according to the invention, each of FIGS. 3 to 6 representing a respective switching position according to one of the method steps as claimed.
- the circuit arrangement shown in FIGS. 3 to 6 each has resistance elements R11, R12 and R13 in a first row "" Rl, resistance elements R21, R22 and R23 in a second row R2 and resistance elements R32 and R33 in a third row R3. Which each form a row resistive elements are electrically connected.
- basically all resistance elements of a row are connected to one another on the output side.
- the resistance elements R11 and R21 are combined to form a first column CL1
- the resistance elements R12, R22 and R32 to form a second column CL2
- the resistance elements R13, R23 and R33 to form a third column CL3.
- Analogously to the connection of the resistance elements within the three rows R1, R2 and R3, the inputs of the resistance elements of a column are each electrically connected to one another.
- switch arrangements SCL1, SCL2 and SCL3 each consisting of four individual switches that can be switched independently of one another, for example 4 switching transistors.
- Each of the three switch arrangements SCL1, SCL2 and SCL3 can switch one of the three illustrated columns CL1, CL2 CL3 of the resistance matrix to one or more of the following connections simultaneously:
- the first reference voltage CLREF is provided at the output of a first impedance converter OCL. As shown in FIGS. 3 to 6, it is designed, for example, as a first operational amplifier OCL, the non-inverting input of which is connected to the common reference voltage line REF and the output of which is fed back to the inverting input of the first operational amplifier OCL.
- a second impedance converter OR generates the second reference voltage RREF and is configured, for example, in the same way as the first impedance converter OCL: the common reference voltage line REF of the resistance matrix 2 is fed to the non-inverting input of a second operational amplifier OR, while the inverting input of the second operational amplifier OR whose output signal is fed back.
- the second operational amplifier OR Analogously to the mode of operation of the first operational amplifier OCL, the second operational amplifier OR also regulates the second reference voltage RREF to the potential of the voltage REF applied to the common reference voltage line.
- the measurement voltage MEAS is supplied to the circuit arrangement by a measurement / supply unit 1, in which the current drawn by the resistance matrix can be measured at the same time.
- the impedance converters OCL and OR, the measuring / supply unit and the switch arrangements of the columns CL1 to CL3 and rows Rl to R3 can be combined within one Be arranged component, for example within a semiconductor ASIC.
- the resistance elements R11 to R33 are mostly arranged as pressure-dependent sensor elements of a sensor seat mat on the surface of a vehicle seat. For measurement reasons " , which are not to be discussed further here, however, resistance elements are also arranged on the sensor seat mat, the output signal of which does not change under the effect of a weight. Therefore, such resistance elements are not necessarily arranged on the sensor seat mat, but can the connection within the resistance matrix 2 of the circuit arrangement shown is only decisive for the association of resistance elements with the circuit arrangement shown on a circuit board and is nevertheless arranged within the resistance matrix 2 and shown accordingly in FIGS. 3 to 6.
- circuit arrangement shown is in no way limited to the three rows R1, R2 and R3 and three columns CL1, CL2 and CL3 shown. Any number of rows R and
- Columns CL can be arranged within the resistance matrix 2.
- Figure 3 shows the first process step.
- the base load resistance element R13 - column CL3 is connected on the input side both to the measurement voltage MEAS and to the reference voltage line REF.
- the switch arrangement is SRI connected to the ground connection at the same time. All other switch arrangements SCL1, SCL2, SR2 and SR3 are, for example, not open at this time.
- Figure 4 shows the second process step.
- the columns CL1 and CL2 which are not to be measured and are not required in this sense are connected to the first reference voltage CLREF via the switch arrangements SCL1 and SCL2, and thus also the resistance elements R11, R21, R12, R22 and R32 on the input side.
- the switch arrangements SR2 and SR3 Via the switch arrangements SR2 and SR3, the rows R2 and R3 which are not pending for measurement and are therefore not required in this sense are connected to the second reference voltage RREF and consequently also the outputs of the resistors R21, R22, R23, R32 and R33, which are used in the two Rows R2 and R3 are combined.
- the column CL2 of the resistance element R22 to be measured is first separated from the existing electrical connections and then connected both to the measuring voltage MEAS and to the common reference voltage line REF, the row R2 simultaneously via the switch arrangement SR2 with the common ground connection of the Resistance matrix 2 is connected.
- the existing electrical connections of the base load resistance element R13 are first disconnected. Then the base load resistance element R13 is switched on the input side together with its column CL3 to the first reference voltage CLREF. On the output side, the base load resistor stand element R13 is connected to the second reference voltage RREF via the switch arrangement SRI together with the entire row R1. Now only a measuring current flows from the measuring / supply unit 1 through the resistance element R22 to be measured to the connected common ground connection of the resistance matrix 2.
- the measurement of the current in the measurement / supply unit 1 can take place as a direct current measurement, but also as an indirect measurement of an electrical measurement value derived from the current, for example a voltage drop across a suitable resistor within the measurement / supply unit 1.
- each resistor of the resistor matrix can be measured in succession.
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